National Insurance: Migrant Workers

Peter Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many migrant workers from other EU member states in  (a) Wellingborough,  (b) Northamptonshire and  (c) the United Kingdom have national insurance numbers; and how many he estimates there will be in 2020.

Stephen Timms: Information on the stock of national insurance numbers held by migrants from EU member states is not available. The available information on the number of national insurance numbers registered in 2006-07 to adult EU nationals in the geographic areas requested is in the table. Information is not available on how many of these EU nationals are in work.
	
		
			  National insurance numbers allocated to adult EU nationals (excluding the United Kingdom) 
			  Area  2006-07 
			 Wellingborough local authority 830 
			 Northamptonshire 6,330 
			 United Kingdom 418,480 
			  Notes: 1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Geography is assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory. 3. Geographical counts are based on the most recently recorded address for the national insurance number recipient at the time of the data scan. 4. Data relates to tax years 6 April to 5 April. 5. Data for Northamptonshire comprises the following local authorities: Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough. 6. Data include NINO allocations to adult Bulgarian and Romanian nationals for the whole of the 2006-07 period.  Source:  Numbers are based on 100 per cent. data from the National Insurance Recording System 
		
	
	There are no estimates of national insurance number allocations to adult EU nationals in 2020.

Pension Credit

Don Touhig: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  what estimate his Department has made of the amount of pension credit unclaimed in  (a) Islwyn constituency,  (b) England and  (c) Wales in each year since its introduction;
	(2)  how many pensioners in Islwyn constituency are  (a) eligible for and  (b) receive a pension credit.

Mike O'Brien: Estimates of eligibility, take-up and the amount of benefit unclaimed are not available below the level of Great Britain. It is not therefore possible to say how many people are eligible to pension credit or how much pension credit is unclaimed in Islwyn constituency, England or Wales.
	Latest estimates of take-up rates, the number of pensioners who were entitled but not claiming pension credit and the amount of pension credit unclaimed in Great Britain were published in the "Income Related Benefits Estimates of Take-Up in 2006/07" report. A copy of this report is available in the Library.
	As at February 2008 there were 3,910 pensioner households—4,860 individuals—receiving pension credit in Islwyn constituency.
	 Notes:
	1. The figures provided are early estimates. The preferred data source for figures supplied by DWP is the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). However, the figure provided is the latest available figure, which is taken from the GMS scan at 28 February 2008. These are adjusted using the historical relationship between WPLS and GMS data to give an estimate of the final WPLS figure.
	2. Case loads are rounded to the nearest 10.
	3. Households are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household.
	4. Individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners.

Pensioners: Council Tax

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners living in poverty are liable to pay council tax at the full rate.

James Plaskitt: Approximately 150,000 pensioners living in households with income of less than 60 per cent. of national median income are liable to pay council tax at the full rate. This equates to about 8 per cent. of pensioners living below the 60 per cent. threshold, and about 1 per cent. of all pensioners.
	These pensioners are pensioner couples, with out disabilities, who have more than £16,000 capital.
	 Notes:
	1. These figures have been derived using the Policy Simulation Model (PSM) which uses data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). These are estimated indicative figures.
	2. The PSM models the current policy year (2008-09) using the latest FRS data (2006-07), by uprating the FRS to represent the appropriate policy year.
	3. The analysis provided assumes full take-up of income-related benefits in 2008-09.
	4. The Government's preferred measures of low income for pensioners are based on incomes measured after housing costs. As part of PSA Delivery Agreement 17 three indicators of low income poverty will be monitored: the percentage of pensioners below 60 per cent. contemporary median income, 50 per cent. median income and 60 per cent. of 1998-99 median income uprated in line with prices.